Black List 2013: Full Screenplay List

UPDATED WITH VOTES, LOGLINES & REPS: The annual Black List today revealed the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted on by over 250 film execs. A total of 72 scripts made the cut in the 2013 edition of the yearly ranking compiled since 2004 by Franklin Leonard, with Andrew Sodroski’s Holland, Michigan receiving the most votes of all. As usual there are plenty of familiar names on this list, including Jason Fuchs for his Pan screenplay that’s set up at Warner Bros with Joe Wright aboard to direct, and Jason Dean Hall’s American Sniper, another Warners project. Black List alumni that have gone on to Oscar and box office glory include Argo, The King’s Speech, and Slumdog Millionaire. This year 33.3 percent of Black List entries have financiers attached; 68 percent have producers attached; and 5 writers or writing teams don’t have agents. Here is the list by votes, with votes by agency here and manager reps here. More complete info as it comes:

39
FRISCO
Simon Stephenson
A forty-something pediatric allergist, who specializes in hazelnut and is facing a divorce, learns lessons in living from a wise-beyond-her-years terminally ill 15-year-old patient when she crashes his weekend trip to a conference in San Francisco.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Peter Dodd, Geoff Morley, Julien Thuan
Producer: Tom McNulty

27
A MONSTER CALLS
Patrick Ness
An adolescent boy with a terminally ill single mother begins having visions of a tree monster, who tells him the truths about life in the form of three stories, helping him to eventually cope with his emotions over his dying mom.
Agency: Michelle Kass Associates
Agents: Michelle Kass

25
THE SPECIAL PROGRAM
Debora Cahn
The true story of Jack Goldsmith, a young attorney who took charge of the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel, then courageously took on Vice President Cheney and his powerful inner circle when he discovered they were running a number of illegal activities through their so-called “Special Program”.
Agency: CAA
Agent: Craig Brody
Financier: The Weinstein Company
Producer: Spring Creek

22
SHOVEL BUDDIES
Jason Mark Hellerman
Over 24 hours, four teenage friends try to complete the “Shovel List” (a will/bucket list) left for them by their best friend before he died of Leukemia.
Agency: CAA
Agents: John Garvey, Ali Trustman
Management: Management 360
Managers: Ali Itri, Dean Schnider

20
POX AMERICANA
Frank John Hughes
In the Old West, a group of soldiers go on a mission to slaughter a peaceful tribe in retaliation for another tribe’s attack on a white settlement, only to suffer at the hands of a devastating disease.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro
Financier: Code Entertainment
Producer: Code Entertainment

THE INDEPENDENT
Evan Parter
With America’s first viable independent Presidential Candidate poised for victory, an idealistic young journalist uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election, and the country, in his hands.
Agency: Paradigm
Agent: Ida Ziniti
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Ryan Cunningham

19
BEAST
Zach Dean
With the hope of starting over, a reformed criminal with an ultra-violent past returns home, but when he finds his own family leading his teenaged son down the same path of destruction, he will stop at nothing to save his child.
Agency: UTA
Agent: Charles Ferraro
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Adam Kolbrenner

THE GOLDEN RECORD
Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell
The true story of how Carl Sagan fell in love while leading the wildest mission in NASA history: a golden record to encapsulate the experience of life on earth for advanced extraterrestrial life.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Tanya Cohen, Rob Hertling, Adam Levine
Management: Hopscotch Pictures
Manager: Sukee Chew
Producer: Hopscotch Pictures

18
FAULTS
Riley Stearns
An expert on cults is hired by a mother and father to kidnap and deprogram their brainwashed daughter. He soon begins to suspect the parents may be more destructive than the cult he’s been hired to save her from.
Agency: WME
Agent: Warren Zavala
Management: Oasis Management Group
Manager: Ben Rowe

SWEETHEART
Jack Stanley
A young hitwoman tries to escape the business but finds herself in more danger after a high school reunion and a one-night stand.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, John Garvey, Stuart Marshall
Management: Silent R Management
Manager: Jewerl Ross
Producers: Cota Films, Silent R Management

THE CIVILIAN
Rachel Long, Brian Pittman
After an American doctor has his identity stolen by a covert operative, he must assume the dangerous mission of the one who stole it in order to clear his name.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Rames Ishak, Michael Sheresky
Management: Management 360
Manager: Scott Carr
Financier: Millennium Films

14
BROKEN COVE
Declan O’Dwyer
After his brother is found brutally murdered, a man hellbent on revenge returns to his decrepit Irish fishing village home armed only with a mysterious list of names his brother left behind.
Agency: WME
Agents: Chris Donnelly, James Farrell, David Karp, Solco Schuit
Management: Energy Entertainment
Manager: Brooklyn Weaver
Producer: Energy Entertainment, Thunder Road Productions

GAY KID AND FAT CHICK
Bo Burnham
Two high school misfits become costumed vigilantes and take out their frustrations on the students who have bullied them throughout high school.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jason Heyman, Greg McKnight
Management: 3 Arts Entertainment
Manager: Dave Becky
Financier: Paramount Insurge

13
1969: A SPACE ODYSSEY OR HOW KUBRICK LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LAND ON THE MOON
Stephany Folsom
With NASA’s Apollo program in trouble and the Soviets threatening nuclear war, a female PR operative conspires with NASA’s Public Affairs Office to stage a fake moon landing in case Armstrong and Aldren fail, the goal being to generate public excitement that will aid the U.S. in winning the Cold War. But the op is faced with the biggest challenge of all: Filming the fake lunar landing with temperamental Stanley Kubrick.
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Aaron Kaplan

AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE
Richard Naing, Ian Goldberg
A father/son mortician team try to uncover the cause of death on a Jane Doe. The more they uncover, the more mysterious and terrifying their world becomes.
Agencies: APA (Naing), CAA (Goldberg)
Agents: Mike Goldberg (Niang), Matt Rosen (Goldberg)
Management: New Wave Entertainment
Manager: Josh Adler
Financier: Goldcrest Films International
Producers: 42, Imposter Pictures

THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY
Nick Creature, Michael Sweeney
When a difficult film shoot spirals hopelessly out of control into a living nightmare, an ambitious young director must face his greatest fears to turn a troubled production into the biggest movie of all time. Set on Martha’s Vineyard during the summer of 1974, this is the untold story of the making of Jaws.
Agency: Rothman Brecher
Agent: Jim Ehrich
Management: Heroes and Villains Entertainment
Managers: Markus Georg, Mikhail Nayfeld

WHERE ANGELS DIE
Alexander Felix
A street-tough, white social worker in the slums of Detroit acts on a dangerous and violent personal vendetta when he protects a young girl and her mother from her recently incarcerated, AIDS-infected boyfriend, after he abruptly massacres a seedy strip club in a rage.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Matt Martin, Ali Trustman
Management: Energy Entertainment
Managers: Tom Carter, Brooklyn Weaver
Producer: Vertigo Entertainment

INK AND BONE
Zak Olkewicz
When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds that all of his creations are holding him hostage.
Agency: WME
Agent: Daniel Cohan
Management: Caliber Media
Manager: Will Rowbotham
Financier: Dimension Films
Producer: Prolific

THE KILLING FLOOR
Bac Delorme, Stephen Clarke
A war veteran slaughterhouse worker and his friend discover a small fortune in heroin hidden inside a processed cow and maneuver to hold onto their find and cash out to save his grandfather’s house as the bad guys come looking for their wayward stash.
Agency: WME
Agent: David Karp
Management: Fourth Floor Productions
Manager: Jeff Silver
Producer: Le Grisbi Productions

10
I’M PROUD OF YOU
Noah Harpster, Micah Fitzerman-Blue
Based on Tim Madigan’s autobiographical novel of the same name. A journalist looking for a story about television’s role in the Columbine tragedy interviews TV’s Mr Rogers and, as a friendship develops between the two, he finds himself confronting his own issues at home.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Jon Huddle, Keya Khayatian
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Alex Lerner
Financier: Big Beach Productions
Producer: Youree Henley

SEED
Christina Hodson
After suffering a devastating miscarriage a young woman and her fiance travel to Italy where she meets his family for the first time, but her grief turns to shock when the local doctor declares that she’s still pregnant. And while her fiance and his family seem delighted by the news, she begins to suspect their true motives are quiet sinister.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jay Baker, Matt Rosen
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Tobin Babst
Producer: The Safran Company, Temple Hill Entertainment

THE COMPANY MAN
Andrew Cypiot
Based on true events. CIA agent Edwin Wilson went behind enemy lines to secure weapons contracts and report information back to the CIA shortly after the Cold War. He had a meteoric rise until company policies changed and he was unceremoniously fired, but he continued to operate as a man without a country and became public enemy number one in the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Rob Herting, Adam Weinstein
Producers: Sourian Productions, Josh Kazdan

9
THE CROWN
Max Hurwitz
In exchange for a lighter prison sentence, a young hacker goes undercover for the FBI in a sting operation to find and steal a super computer virus with the help of a team of unsuspecting hacker.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, Jacqueline Sacerio
Management: Fourth Floor Productions
Manager: Jeff Silver
Financier/producer: Start Motion Pictures

DIABLO RUN
Shea Mirzai, Evan Mirzai
While on a road trip to Mexico, two best friends are forced to enter a thousand-mile death race with no rules.
Agency: Resolution
Agents: Remington Franklin, Martin Spencer
Producer: Atmosphere Entertainment

RANDLE IS BENIGN
Damien Ober
Follows a woman in the ’80s who works at an IBM-like company and is at the forefront of national intelligence research. When her project (named RANDLE) hits a major milestone indicating that she may have actually achieved AI, it is unexpectedly hijacked by the agenda of the company’s mysterious CEO. As she dives deeper into the corporate agenda, she learns that there may be a connection between her project and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.
Agency: WME
Agents: Simon Faber, Solco Schuit
Management: Echo Lake Entertainment
Manager: Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, James Engle
Financier/producer: Echo Lake Entertainment

INQUEST
Josh Simon
After the death of Princess Diana, a reluctant investigator is hired to ascertain whether her death was premeditated. And in the process, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that compromises his own safely.
Agency: WME
Agents: Mike Esola
Management: Apostle Pictures
Manager: George Heller
Financer/producer: Start Motion Pictures

FULLY WRECKED
Jake Morse, Scott Wolman
An R-rated talking car from the ’80s is brought back into service and teamed up with the son of his former partner, a befuddled cop looking to earn his stripes.
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Josh Goldenberg
Producer: Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions

EXTINCTION
Spenser Cohen
A man must do everything he can to save his family from an alien invasion.
Agency: WME
Agent: Solco Schuit
Management: Energy Entertainment
Manager: Brooklyn Weaver
Financier: Good Universe
Producer: Mandeville Films

REVELATION
Hernany Perla
A prison psychiatrist meets a death row inmate on the verge of his execution who claims to be the only thing stopping the end of the world. As she begins to investigate his predictions, she finds them to be eerily accurate, and that she may be a central figure in the events to come.
Agency: Original Artists
Agent: Chris Sablan
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Ryan Cunningham
Financier: Lotus Entertainment
Producer: Circle Of Confusion

ELSEWHERE
Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis
After his girlfriend dies in a car accident, a man finds his true soulmate, only to wake from a coma to learn his perfect life was just a dream — one he is determined to make real.
Agency: Paradigm
Agent: David Boxerbaum
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Adam Kolbrenner
Producer: Madhouse Entertainment

THE LINE
Sang Kyu Kim
A corrupt bordercrossing agent must decide what is more important — saving his soul or inflating his bank account — when he discovers a young illegal boy who escaped a cartel hit on the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
Agency: CAA
Agent: Matt Rosen
Producer: 42

HALF HEARD IN THE STILLNESS
David Weil
A young man, who is inadvertently rescued after living 10 years in the basement of the child predator who abducted him, struggles to reunite with his family, while the detective in charge of his case investigates the link between his discovery and the recent disappearance of another local boy.
Agency: Gersh
Agent: Carlos Gonzalez
Management: Unified Management
Manager: Jesse Moresco
Producer: Rebecca Eskreis

TIME & TEMPERATURE
Nick Santora
Based on a true story, Dale Julin (a low-level Fresno affiliate morning show host) stumbles upon the biggest story of his life — and though he has reached the midpoint of his career without ever being a “real journalist” — risks his safety and his marriage to uncover the truth that a small atomic bomb exploded in Central Valley, California, during the Korean War — a secret that has been hidden for decades.
Agency: WME
Agent: Jason Spitz
Management: The Gotham Group
Managers: Jeremy Bell, Stephan Iwanyk, Lindsay Williams

CAKE
Patrick Tobin
A woman who’s been suffering from chronic pain since the car accident that cost the life of her child finds the will to go on from the most unexpected places.
Agency: WME
Agents: Adriana Alberghetti, Kimberly Bialek
Producer: Ben Barnz

7
PURE O
Kate Trefry
In order to overcome violent visions brought on by OCD, a promising young writer is urged by family and friends to step outside her comfort zone to experience the excitement and vulnerability of truly living.
Management: Caliber Media
Manager: Lee Stobby

THE END OF THE TOUR
Donald Margulies
Upon hearing of David Foster Wallace’s suicide, writer David Lipsky recalls his 1996 interview with him.
Agency: WME
Agents: Kimberly Bialek, David Lubliner
Management: Anonymous Content
Manager: David Kanter
Producer: Anonymous Content

NICHOLAS
Leo Sardarian
With the Roman Empire on the brink of collapse, a fourth century bishop takes up arms to lead the armies of Constantine the Great into battle against the ruthless emperor, changing the face of Rome and begetting one of the greatest legends in history.
Agency: APA
Agents: Adam Perry, Chris Ridenhour
Management: Management 360
Managers: Ali Itri, Adam Riback
Producer: Level 1 Entertainment

MAN OF SORROW
Neville Kiser
Based on true events, the story centers on Oscar Wilde who goes from renowned playwright to losing everything personally and professionally.
Management: Principato-Young Entertainment
Manager: Peter Dealbert

THE FIXER
Bill Kennedy
A man who works in wealth management, and also has his hands in a number of less than ethical enterprises, begins collaborating with a Los Angeles-based drug dealer. The dealer just so happens to have the man’s son as one of his runners in the drug-fueled LA nightlife.
Agency: WME
Agent: Daniel Cohan
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Josh Goldenberg

SEA OF TREES
Chris Sparling
An American man takes a journey into the infamous “Suicide Forest” at the foothills of Mount Fuji with the intention of taking his own life. When he is interrupted by a Japanese man who has had second thoughts about his own suicide, and is trying to find his way out of the forest, the two begin a journey of reflection and survival.
Agency: UTA
Agent: Charles Ferraro
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Aaron Kaplan
Producer: Gil Netter Productions

6
BURY THE LEAD
Justin Kremer
A desperate, attention-hungry journalist concocts a story that ironically proves to be true and finds himself engulfed in a dangerous underworld of murder and mayhem.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, Matt Rosen, Ali Trustman
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Adam Kolbrenner

FROM HERE TO ALBION
Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani
A tragic accident in a coastal English town sets off a chain of violence when a malevolent assassin attempts to punish all involved, including a dirty cop who is intent on covering up the truth.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Carolyn Sivitz, Melissa Wells
Management: Oasis Media Group
Manager: Ben Rowe
Financier/producer: Participant Media

THE REMAINS
Meaghan Oppenheimer
Three former childhood friends with a complicated history get back together to spread the ashes of their friend who recently died.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Rowena Arguelles, Melissa Wells
Management: Underground
Manager: Evan Silverberg

LAST MINUTE MAIDS
Leo Nichols
Two lovable losers run into trouble after they start a service cleaning up the stuff you don’t want your loved ones to find once you die.
Management: Benderspink
Manager: Jake Wagner

PAN
Jason Fuchs
A prequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan. When an orphan is taken to the magical world of Neverland, he becomes a hero to the natives and leads a revolt against the evil pirates.
Agency: WME
Agents: Simon Farber, Phil Raskind
Management: Brookside Artist Management
Financier: Warner Bros
Producer: Berlanti Productions

DUDE
Olivia Milch
The story of four best girlfriends who must learn how to move forward without moving on, as they come down off their “high” of high school in this “Fast Times-esque” teenage comedy.
Agency: ICM
Agents: John Burnham, Brian Diperstein
Management: Mosaic
Managers: Jimmy Miller, Langley Perer

PATIENT Z
Michael Le
In a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies, a man who speaks their language questions the undead in order to find a cure for his infected wife.
Agency: APA
Agent: David Saunders
Management: Hung Entertainment Group
Manager: Jonathan Hung
Financier: Screen Gems
Producer: Vincent Newman Entertainment